As soon as he heard that Chen Zhen was here to sell stones, the fat man behind the service desk had his eyes wide and stood up violently. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The expression of the old man with a sad face suddenly became serious, and the middle-aged man who was pretending to be asleep next to him opened his eyes, stood in front of the service desk and turned his head to look at Chen Zhen with his watch, Zou Ping was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the fat man with a smug face.

No one spoke, the shop was very quiet, the door was closed, but the sound of the street outside could be heard, Chen Zhen noticed the change in the crowd, and did not understand why these people would react so much to the change of stones.

"Stone hunters?" The fat man relieved himself and asked in a low voice.

"It's not." Chen Zhen looked at Zou Ping, thinking that it would be just a matter of a few seconds, paying the money with one hand and delivering the goods with the other, and he could go out after the exchange, but now it seems that selling stones is not so simple.

Zou Ping also lowered his voice and explained: "The stones are not exchanged here, and now you need to have a license to hold and sell stones, otherwise it is a crime; The purchase of stones also requires a business permit, otherwise it is also a crime, and this store does not have a license. ”

"Can't pick it up?" Chen Zhen frowned, the permit and permit are obviously related to taxes, which is understandable, the problem is that it is a crime to have stones, so who can still use stones?

"It's okay to pick up one, it's not a crime, but you can't sell it, you can only exchange it for some benefits, such as exempt and tax-free documents, but you can't exchange it for money." Zou Ping is very familiar with this aspect of things.

Chen Zhen frowned and asked, "There's no way to exchange money?" ”

The man with the watch at the front desk smiled and said, "That's natural, but you have to find someone who has a permit and dares to buy stones, and sell them to him at a low price." ”

"What about the certificate?" Chen Zhen looked at Zou Ping again.

"If you can't do it, the person in charge of handling the certificate will receive filial piety, and generally won't release the certificate, so that those who have a permit can buy stones at a low price and sell them to officials with a permit at a high price." Zou Ping lowered his voice.

The collusion between the person who applied for the certificate and the person who had the certificate to buy low and sell high is indeed a way to make a lot of money.

Chen Zhen thought for a while, looked at the people in the room, and said, "You keep your voice low and don't want people to hear, there is probably a way to change it." ”

Everyone looked at the middle-aged man sitting on the chair, and the middle-aged man said, "I can take one hundred light stones, two hundred hot stones, and five hundred vibration stones." ”

Zou Ping frowned and said, "You're too little, aren't you?" Everyone else collects one-fifth of the price, and you only give one-tenth of the price, which is too dark. ”

The middle-aged man didn't mind at all, and said with a sneer: "More than a dozen people were arrested a few days ago, and the corpses were just buried, and the matter of losing their heads is not enough now, and no one dares to do it." ”

The person holding the watch said with a smile: "Anyone can guess that those people were reported by the person who handled the certificate, and they didn't give enough filial piety, so they were all killed, and they could also take the opportunity to let the holder lower the purchase price and make more money." ”

None of the people in the room spoke, and the middle-aged man didn't speak, looking indifferent.

"I'll change a hot stone." Chen Zhen took out a red stone and handed it to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man took a look, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Do you want to pay the entrance tax?" ”

Chen Zhen nodded.

The middle-aged man took out eleven silver coins and handed them to Chen Zhen, saying, "Then I'll give you change directly." ”

Chen Zhen stretched out his hand to take it and thanked him.

It can be seen from the slightly blackened reflection of the coin that this is a nickel coin, ten of which have the word "ten" embossed on the obverse, a lion's head, which is the symbol of Jingcheng, and the other one has a "hundred" embossed on the obverse.

Out of the store, the tax was paid at the city gate, Chen Zhen stood inside the city gate and thought about what to do next, the city had changed too much, making him a little overwhelmed.

Zou Ping was still standing beside him, and when he saw Chen Zhen hesitating, he said, "What is the matter with you in Yicheng?" ”

"I'm looking for someone, but I don't know where they are, and I'm not sure if they're in the city." Chen Zhen said lightly.

Zou Ping was stunned again, he didn't know the specific situation of Chen Zhen, thinking to himself that such a big city, there are so many people in the city, even people come in to look for them when they are not in the city, is it a fool? But the fool's money is easy to make, he naturally will not dislike Chen Zhen, and said: "It will take a lot of time, you have to find a corner first, if you don't mind, you can live in my house, live five lion coins for one night, the conditions are naturally a little simpler, but cheap, if you want to live in Tianfu Building, you will get one hundred lion coins that night." ”

"Okay, let's stay at your house and go eat first." It didn't matter where Chen Zhen lived, he had slept on a tree most of the time in the past two months, even if it was a plank, it was much more comfortable than a branch.

"Okay, are you looking for a good restaurant or a cheap one?" Zou Ping looked happy.

"There is a shop with ordinary meat." Chen Zhen said simply.

"Okay, let's go, you don't like to eat the meat of big bugs? I don't like it either, I like to eat pork belly, grilled and eaten. Zou Ping licked his lips and walked down the street with Chen Zhen.

Only very special parts of the big insect are high-quality ingredients, very expensive, and the rest of the parts are not as good as ordinary meat, very cheap, it is considered to go to two extremes, very rich people and very poor people eat the meat of mutated creatures, so there are many people who often eat and love to eat ordinary meat, which will not arouse suspicion, but there are few people who specialize in eating ordinary meat.

Chen Zhen followed and walked forward, glanced back at the exchange shop, and saw that the middle-aged man had also left the store and hurriedly walked into a small alley opposite.

Maybe the hot stone can be taken back again, he thought so, and glanced at Zou Ping again, Zou Ping didn't seem to know the middle-aged man, otherwise he wouldn't have said something like that in the store, and he didn't guess what the other party wanted to do, otherwise he wouldn't let him live in his own house, which means that the middle-aged man should not be from Yicheng, and his style should be different from that of Yicheng.

"What's the name of the person you're looking for?" Leaving the main street with Chen Zhen and coming to a small road, Zou Ping seemed to be a little unaccustomed to Chen Zhen's silence and asked.

"Qi Yunxiao and Yu Shan." Chen Zhen currently only has a clue of his name, which is not very reliable, in order to conceal his identity, Qi Yunxiao and Yu Shan may use fake names.

"I don't know." Zou Ping shook his head and said, "But I can help you inquire." ”

"No need, I'll find it myself, is the former chairman of the executive council of Yicheng still alive?" Chen Zhen was worried that Zou Ping would ask around and attract people who knew the identities of Qi Yunxiao and Yu Shan, which would cause unnecessary trouble.

He was going to paint a portrait and take it with him and ask people everywhere, which was much better than using a name.

As for asking the president of the council, he wanted to know the whereabouts of Aunt Qi Yunxiao.

This seems to be a taboo topic, Zou Ping shrank his neck in fright, looked at the people nearby, and then said: "I hanged myself that day, and the blood flowed like a river......

Chen Zhen frowned, and said, "What about the people of his family?" ”

Zou Ping tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "I don't know if I died some, ran some, and hid some." ”

"You can help me inquire, especially about the president's wife." Chen Zhen said as he handed over a lion coin.

"Okay, no problem." Zou Ping took the lion coin and immediately put it in his pocket, as if he was afraid that the coin would be weathered.

After shuttling through the paths and alleys for a while, Zou Ping took Chen Zhen into a store that didn't even have a house number, and said in a low voice: "Let's eat quickly, there seems to be someone following behind, maybe they are coming to rob you of stones." ”

Chen Zhen nodded, he had already felt that Zou Ping was taking him around just now, it seems that this young man is still a little clever, but he has no experience in being followed, and he couldn't get rid of those people, and knowing that someone is following, generally speaking, he should find a place with a lot of people, and it is really unwise to run to such a secret shop.

Of course, Chen Zhen doesn't matter.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and the pockmarked shopkeeper saw that a guest was coming, but he still couldn't sit up, lazily took out a pen and paper, and waited for the order, anyway, the store was small, there were only four square tables and sixteen stools, and everything could be heard clearly.

There is a menu hanging on the wall, and there are more than a dozen pieces of paper hanging on a rope, on which are the names of the dishes written with a brush, as well as the price, things are not expensive, ordinary meat, insect meat.

Chen Zhen sat on the innermost table and glanced at the wall, asked for two plates of meat, a total of four taels, and was almost full, Zou Ping asked for two side dishes and a bowl of soup.

The dishes came up quickly, and at this time, a few more people walked into the store, sitting at the two tables near the door, all with fierce expressions, not looking at Chen Zhen.

The shopkeeper was a little dumbfounded, this is not the time to eat, there is so much business, and the two tables of people sitting at the door look very scary, each table only ordered a plate of meat, but asked for two jars of wine.

Zou Ping saw at a glance that this was going to happen, and then he remembered that he shouldn't have gone to this remote store, but he regretted that it was too late, he looked nervous, it was probably the first time he encountered this kind of thing, and his hands trembled badly.

Seeing Chen Zhen's calm face, as if he didn't know what was going to happen, Zou Ping wanted to remind him, but the store was too small, and he could hear everything he said, and he didn't dare to squeak.

Chen Zhen took a piece of meat and put it in his mouth, frowned slightly and spit it out, pretended to cough and spit the meat back into his hand, threw it on the ground, asked for a pot of wine, and stopped touching the two plates of meat.

The meat that has been mixed with mutant creatures, although it has been specially treated, no longer has a fishy smell, but Chen Zhen can taste the flesh of mutated creatures, and for the bones, unless the meat of mutated creatures is burned into charcoal, no matter how you deal with it, there will be a sour smell that can make people sick.

But there is no place to reason about this matter, as soon as he says it, he will expose the fact that he is in the bones, so Chen Zhen just symbolically picked up a few mouthfuls of rice and ate some vegetables, then stopped moving his chopsticks and poured himself a drink.

The two tables of people didn't talk all the time, and soon drank up the two jars of wine, and when they put down the bowl of wine, the middle-aged man also appeared, standing under the door frame, did not come in, looked at Chen Zhen coldly, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, you know what to do." ”

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